Last weekend, volunteers from Central Galilee Partnership 2000 gathered for a joint working seminar.  The volunteers spent two days brainstorming ideas for community projects as part of the Partnership Volunteers Seminar, held once each year.

Together with their community activities, the volunteers have over the past year worked diligently to develop a vision and define goals for their activities.  This seminar, in fact, marks the end of this process and the beginning of getting to work.

In a sunshine-filled weekend, the volunteers wrote out a vision and objectives, the focus shifting between internal activity, i.e., further establishing what already exists, and external endeavors, i.e. working for the community.

The volunteers' output was impressive-three working teams with new faces: A team for the bar-mitzvah/children with special needs project, a team for strengthening Partnership 2000 communications to report on happenings on the ground, and a team for preserving volunteers via training and developing community leadership.

In between tasks, the volunteers dined together and got acquainted with new volunteers from Nazareth Illit.  They topped things off with a nighttime jeep trip to Lake Kinneret and the Golan Heights.

Thirty volunteers attended the seminar this year, coming from Nazareth Illit, Migdal HaEmek, and Jezreel Valley.  A big round of thanks are due to the organizers of the event: Shula Almonzino-Zaguri, Haim Rosh, Ziona Shriki, and Esti Bar-Sadeh.  And thanks to all of the Partnership volunteers for their efforts and investment throughout the year.